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  1. pretty much a first on Crusoe As Server CPU · · Score: 4

    at least someone is using it.

  2. Re:just take a vacation on Taking Time Off When You Are The Only Admin? · · Score: 1

    Spread out over the course of your lifetime, being mismoderated is a minor setback. Besides, by commenting in the same story, you have un-done the moderation.

  3. just take a vacation on Taking Time Off When You Are The Only Admin? · · Score: 4
    Sometimes people forget that they are working to make money to buy things they want and need. Sometimes that's food; sometimes that is a trip to the islands. You have worked enough that they want you to go enjoy yourself. Well, turn off your pager and cell phone and go drink a daqueri on the beach. When you come back all this crap will still be there. You will still have work to do so that you can make more money so that you can buy the things you need and want.

    If the company goes bankrupt or fires you while you were gone, then you get another job to earn money to buy the things you need and want. The job is there to support you, not the other way around.

    pretty soon, you will have enough money to buy the things you need and want for the rest of your life. That's when you retire. Don't forget to do that.

  4. Re:I hope this doesn't happen to me! on Amateur With Call-Sign Deflects Domain Challenge · · Score: 1

    It came in the name of Santos L. Halper. What a riot!

  5. do you perhaps mean "VA Linux"? on Class Action Lawsuit Against VA · · Score: 3

    Every time I see stories about VA, I always read them as something like "Class Action Lawsuit Against Virginia". I bet you're glad that slashdot is not owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, so act like it!

  6. sweat can pass but not water? on Nano-pants · · Score: 2
    Does that mean they won't let me pass water?

    Oh no. I'll have to hold it all day!

  7. new submission on The History Is In The Shirts · · Score: 4

    lloyd tabb hacked geekt.org and all I got was this slashdotted site.

  8. embrace and extend on Ballmer Claims Linux Is Top Threat To MS · · Score: 2
    I'm not sure if I'd rather hear him say that or something along the lines of "I think Linux will give us a new platform that we can use to fill in some of the missing holes in our product lines."

    On one hand, it would be nice to have outlook and office for linux so I could cooperate with the rest of the company. (the embrace part) On the other hand, I guess it's good that they still aren't publicly admitting to making up their famous (incomopatable) improvments yet. (the extend part)

    I'm glad I'm finally hearing the world's largest software company talk about the OS I use, but I think I'd like some software from them for it.

  9. Re:What about MacOS 9.1?!?!?!? on A Basket Full of Apple News · · Score: 2
    Where's 9.1?!!? Did Steve forget about something? Apple fsck'd up the ROM files for all the new G4's so they're not compatible with the older models, AND the newest G4 (with the purple button) ROM is unstable! So are we supposed to sit around until March 24th with flaky computers?!?!? sheesh!

    This page lists three ways to get it.

    BTW: your "?" and "!" keys seem to be flaking out and repeating themselves unnecessarily.

  10. komodo on Resources For Windows Developers Moving To Unix? · · Score: 2
    As for an IDE, activestate (the makers of a good version of PERL for windows) is building an IDE called komodo. It's supposed to run on windows and linux and be useful for PERL, Python, and Javascript.

    This might help you if you switch back and forth as you get more used to linux. I don't think it's very mature on linux yet, but it may be worth keeping an eye on.

  11. Re:Why? on Resources For Windows Developers Moving To Unix? · · Score: 2
    Why should we want to migrate from windows development to Linux when we doesn't get paid for our work?

    Because it will improve your grammer, especially your subject/verb agreement problem.

  12. Re:Canadian know on Monolith Appears In Seattle · · Score: 2

    um, I was pretty much worried about the 4 and 9.

  13. Re:Mirror of tabs on Lawyers Close Up Renegade Olga · · Score: 2

    sounds like the kind of work freenet was built for. Maybe one of the two people that have ever used freenet will put it on there.

  14. Re:Squares of the first three integers? on Monolith Appears In Seattle · · Score: 2
    Do Canadians use different prime numbers than the rest of the world? They're weirder than I thought.

    1,4, and 9 are prime where you are? damn, that is weird.

  15. Re:It wasn't my favorite on Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' Available On DVD! · · Score: 3
    I have to agree in part. I was very excited about this release and bought a copy. I got it a few weeks ago and watched some before I gave it to my brother for Christmas. We then watched some more together.

    Viewing it this time was quite different for both of us than watching it when it first aired when we were kids. This time I could plainly see how he stressed the wonder and amazement of all we don't know as opposed to telling me a bunch of interesting and exciting stuff we (humans) do know.

    That aspect of the series may be one thing that made it so memorable. It may have helped a lot of my generation become scientists of some kind by increasing our curiousity. I, however, found it to be a bit annoying, and frankly a bit boring.

    Additionally, viewing this series again some 20 years later did give me a few good laughs at the special effects of the Spaceship Imagination or whatever it was that he flew around the Cosmos.

    Those complaints aside, I found that by viewing this series again, I did learn some things and it may have rekindled a passing interest in astronomy I have. I also forgot how much history was in the series. Some of that was pretty interesting.

    I would reccommend this series to young teenagers who have never seen it before, but not to those who wish to see the series that they enjoyed in childhood. Unfortunately, I don't think that it will live up to your memories of the series.

  16. Mason on What Gives The Best Embedded Perl Performance? · · Score: 3
    I would reccommed that you take a look at Mason.

    I'm not sure if the performance is as good as some other soutions, but I've written some pretty big, fast sites on it and I know others have. It runs under mod_perl, so that makes it a bit faster, but does limit you to apache, I guess, in case that matters.

    It's a pretty good way to make compnent-based web applications and lets you seperate the HTML stuff from the PERL a little more than some solutions. This means that the artsy people can hack some components and the coders can hack others.

    The component based aspects of it make it my tool of choice when I'm writing a set of pages which have a lot of little seperate boxes, like a portal or something. It makes it a lot easier to keep track of what pieces of the pages are coming from which pieces of code.

    Hope it helps.

  17. Re:I know curiosity killed the cat.. but on Ask An Ordinary Teenage Slashdot User · · Score: 1
    "Old habits die hard . . . thats why I got that oozie from Walmart" - Nadine Edwards

    do you mean "uzi"?

  18. Re:MacOS Comparison on Sun Announces It Will Ship Solaris With Eazel · · Score: 3
    Does anyone think that Nautilus might be taking away from the MacOS crowd when it goes mainstream (eventually)? After all, you have a pretty nice GUI, plus Apple is really confusing people w/ the interface for OS X to the point that even the beta testers are modifying it.

    It's my belief that the OSX interface is only confusing to previus mac users because it's a bit different than the old look and feel. I'm writing this on OSX right now, and I don't find it awkward, but I had not used a mac in 5 or 6 years before this.

    If that's the case, then moving to Nautilis would seem to be more confusing as it's even more different from older macos.

    $0.02

  19. do you run linux? on What PDA Would You Recommend? · · Score: 2
    I've got both a Palm Pilot and a Rex Plus. (granted they aren't the same models you mention. They're pretty old)

    In my experience, it's a lot easier to use a palm pilot with my linux box than it is my rex. There are better written apps to sync your data, load up the data, and stuff like that for the palm than for the rex.

    In fact, although there is a piece of software that is supposed to sync my rex with my linux box, I cannot get it to wok at all. If that were to happen with my palm pilot, I'd use one of the half a dozen other pieces of software.

    just something to think about, and the linux support for those new rex's may get better if more people buy them

    (If you're one of those people that reverse-engineers proprietary protocols for things like the rex, then please buy one and help me out!)

  20. Re:kodak on Digital Cameras As Web Cams? · · Score: 1
    It was when I used to work for handshake.com (AKA simplydone.com, AKA sdbs.net)

    It's a wharehouse in Marina del Rey, CA. It was kinda loud, but pretty cool building.

  21. kodak on Digital Cameras As Web Cams? · · Score: 3

    I did this with my kodak DC280 and a cron job, but I had to shut it off after Jason got tired of the flash going off in the office every minute. I think I used gphoto, but I can't remember. Here is an example of Jason getting flashed. I can't imagine why it bothered him.

  22. routergod on Learning Unix Concepts Through Fiction? · · Score: 3

    Sounds a bit like routergod which includes such articles as Alicia Silverstone on ISDN and Charles Manson On Static Routes. Always have a good reference handy!

  23. Re:ITYM "ITYM "ITYM IANACP"" on "War Rooms" Double Software Productivity · · Score: 2
    TWHS.

    (That's What He Said.)

  24. Re:i know what this is all about on "War Rooms" Double Software Productivity · · Score: 5

    is grizzo.com hiring?

  25. Re:Sense of purpose, perhaps? on "War Rooms" Double Software Productivity · · Score: 1
    I'm no clinical psychologist

    I think you meant to say "IANACP"